https://archive.org/details/tobago

The Changing Society of Tobago, 1838-1938: A Fractured Whole by Susan E. Craig-James

Topics
#Tobago, #historyofTobago, #TrinidadTobago, #TrinidadandTobago, #socialhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #sugarplantations, #agriculture, #abolitionofslavery, #plantationeconomy, #plantationeconomies

Volume I: 1838-1900
Volume II: 1900-1938

https://archive.org/details/west-indies-patterns

The West Indies: Patterns of Development, Culture and Environmental Change Since 1492 by David Watts

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #geography, #historicalgeography, #genocide, #blackchattelslavery, #slavetrade, #antiblackness, #translatlanticslavetrade, #whitesupremacy, #imperialism, #colonialism, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #amerikas, #northamerika, #plantations, #plantationeconomy, #sugarplantations, #environmentalgeography, #slavesocieties, #ecology

This magisterial survey of the historical geography of the West Indies is at bottom concerned with the causes and consequences of three complex and inter-related phenomena: the rapid and total removal of a large aboriginal population; the development of plantation agriculture and the arrival of enforced labour, in the form of many thousands of African slaves; and the environmental, ecological and cultural changes that resulted.

https://archive.org/details/indigenous-caribbean

Indigenous Languages of the Caribbean by Mervyn C. Alleyne

Topics
#Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #Caribbeanlinguistics, #sociolinguistics, #genocide, #colonialism, #europeancolonialism, #europeanimperialism, #indigenouspeoples, #SocietyforCaribbeanLinguistics, #linguistics

"Keynote Address delivered by Professor Emeritus Mervyn C. Alleyne at the opening of the 14th biannual conference of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics on Wednesday 14 August 2002, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago"

https://archive.org/details/national-symbols-of-sxm

National Symbols of St. Martin - A Primer by Lasana M. Sekou; Rhoda Arrindell

Topics
#StMartin, #SaintMartin, #SintMaarten, #SXM, #Soualiga, #Swaliga, #Caribbean, #nationalism, #independence, #independencemovements, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean

from the preface: "National Symbols of St. Martin - A Primer records, highlights, and proposes regenerative features of the composite face of St. Martin's natural, popular, and national symbols."

https://archive.org/details/execrable

Report on the Execrable Conspiracy Carried Out by the Amina Negroes on the Danish Island of St. Jan in America, 1733 by Pierre J. Pannet; Aimery P. Caron; Arnold R. Highfield

Topics
#slaverevolt, #slaverebellion, #insurrection, #blackchattelslavery, #danishcolonialism, #danishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #antiblackness, #stjan, #sanktjan, #saintjohn, #virginislands, #usvirginislands, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #historyoftheCaribbean, #counterinsurgency, #CoralBay, #danishwestindies, #denmark

Christiansted: Antilles Press